Hi,
It's very simple: use PDL, so that content can be exchanged.
No, it's not that simple. The PDL prevets content from being reused in
the largest pools of existing content (GPL and Creative Commons) it
prevents distribution by Debian (the largest Linux distro), it
requires a lot of heavy work which made it hard for us to write and
review chapters at the speed we wanted (if each chapter gets reviewed
6 times and we have 88 chapters so far, that's a lot of tracking to
do) and we were worried that we might not be using the license
correctly (how detailed should be tracking be?).
So .. you care about GPL, Creative Commons and Debian. Ok .. I'm fine
with that.
But .. you don't care about, how your documentation could be reusable
for the OOo project. That's ok too .. you don't need to do so.
You are attracting volunteers to join OOoAuthors .. thats also fine.
Every project lead should do so.
But .. these both facts (getteing volunteers to join the OOoAuthors and
using a license, that is not reusable within the OOo project) makes
people here at the project upset. Please don't tell you haven't foreseen
this.
Because there weren't many documents in that category, and there were
many documents in the others. Using the same thing other documents use
is a desirable goal, but not the only one. For example, if the choice
of license prevents redistribution by important channels and causes so
much extra work as to halt the project, those are important
considerations too. It's not an easy decision. As I said earlier, I'll
consider what you said and look for options. Please be a little patient.
I am :-)
As long as there is someone working on an issue, there is still hope ,-)
André
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